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  1. Is a successful 1918 Spring Offensive possible?

    Only if the Entente does much much worse. The problem is that by Spring 1918 the British and French are too savvy. And their industry’s and Empires were fully geared up for continental war in a way that they hadn’t been in 1914. No it would take too great a level of incompetence for the...

  2. Malaya What If

    The attacks on Rangoon suffered heavy losses vs a better organised RAF and AVG wing. The Chinese around Kunming had a ground spotting system that gave ample warning of inbound Japanese aircraft and the AVGs first combat mission in WW2 on 20th Dec 1941 was intercepting a 10 strong IJA bomber...

  3. Malaya What If

    I didn't think that the Flying Tigers started combat ops until late Dec 1941? So not sure they were in a position to tell anything to anyone Also while there was a number of KI43 Oscars the majority of the fighters in the IJA 'fighter estate' was the KI27 Nate fighters during the period of the...

  4. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    You accept that in the face of the limits of Submarine and small vessel supplies that such an action was necessary and that losses will be taken to the point where the freighters being sent are considered expendable. There are plenty of famous convoy's where heavy losses were sustained and...

  5. Marineflieger Kommando: MFK - Hitlers Fleet Air Arm

    The biggest issue with the unsustainable financial practices that the NAZIs were conducting during the 30s was the freeze in wages not keeping up with inflation. Not a problem where you are effectively creating a police state with the suppression of Unions etc and controlling the price of goods...

  6. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Well something would be better than nothing and I am not suggesting that it would be easy!

  7. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    HMS Venomous shot up some tanks while withdrawing the British Garrison - it was a captured fort over looking the harbour that shot up HMS Venetia causing her to catch fire with Venomous destroying the fort and silencing the guns in two salvos of 4.7" The next night a remarkable feat was...

  8. Malaya What If

    Quite!

  9. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    That will learn the Swine!

  10. Alternate/What If Osprey Titles

    I have a Haynes Manual on the German Infantryman - all models 1939-1945 (I purchased it for a laugh as it was reduced to a £5 - but its actually an excellent source of information) - so why not!

  11. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    I think if the USAAF were capable of conducting a raid of the order of devastation of the Tokyo raid or one of the 2 Atomic raids on Germany before it surrendered then they almost certainly would have done. Anything to bring that hateful war to an earlier end!

  12. Malaya What If

    Wasn't it something horrific like 250,000 killed in occupied China?

  13. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I suspect it has but is outside of the scope if this work?

  14. Alternate/What If Osprey Titles

    "Remember the Texas" The sinking of USS Texas by U-203 on 19th June 1941 and the subsequent declaration of war by the USA on Nazi Germany The book details the history of the Battleship and the U-boat leading up to teh events of 19th June 1941 It details the actions of U-boat captain Rolf...

  15. January 1943. The German View

    Yes a very interesting thought exercise Do they go all in and try to force Britain to terms or try to conserve the air force for the struggle ahead?

  16. Alternate/What If Osprey Titles

    A39 Tortoise vs Jagdtiger II. An account of the only engagement between both tank types during Operation Plunder in March 1945 and the British tanks subsequent use as a Super heavy Siege tank in the last months of WW2 Hunter F1 vs MIG 15 An account of the efforts to stand up a Scratch Hawker...

  17. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    One of the reasons for Operation Cerberus (AKA the Channel Dash) in early 1942 was, aside from the RAF and USAAF using the ships a bombing targets was the belief that the British were going to launch an invasion of Norway and it was in late 1941 that Hitler ordered planning for this mission for...

  18. January 1943. The German View

    It would also be a case of the quantity of pilots each were able to train with the Luftwaffe dropping from 3000 odd pilots trained in 1940 to only 1500 in 1944 The relatively quiet first half of 1941 allowed them to recover from the losses of 1940 but the training system only just about allowed...

  19. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    The Malta Pop in 1942 was 270,000 odd (not sure if that included the garrison). The Pedestal Convoy despite so few vessels actually making it to the Island which apart from the fuels Ohio delivered which allowed vastly increased air operations from the Islands, was 29,000 t of 'General Cargo'...

  20. Malaya What If

    The disproportionate strength in airpower shown in Cartwheel by the US and Commonwealth airforces pretty much shows how bad the situation was for the Japanese by 1943.
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